lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
young women, they turned out in high numbers, because suddenly they realize that something they took for granted might be gone and they wanted to fight for it, just as we did 50 years ago. congresswoman dina titus of nevada, thank you for your time tonight, congratulations again on your win. maybe f bombs flow in a different direction next time. thank you. one of the biggest political machines in the state of nevada is probably the culinary workers union, also known as culinary. in many ways, the democrats successes inexplicably tied to the workers union, both in terms of mobilization, and now in terms of making sure each and every vote is counted. joining us now is secretary of the union. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i know culinary has been super involved in the mobilization effort. but now it appears that you guys are involved in a really critical at postelection effort, and that is ballot carrying. for people who do not know what that is, and why that is
recent months and years? look, i can t really tell you that but i know in 2020, we knocked on 650,000 doors. in the middle of covid when no one else was on the door. this time around, we knew these midterm elections were going to be extremely close. we had to expand our walk program larger than we ve ever done in the past. we have knocked on over 1 million doors during the mid term in the state of nevada, those were our goals, and we hit our goals. right now, we have close to 300 full-time canvassers, ballot carrying in las vegas and nevada. we are the largest ballot curing program in the state. same as the canvassing. no one hits the doors like we do, no one hits the doors like [inaudible] i want to see one thing, these are cleaners, food servers,
when you talk about tearing the ballots, in years past, democrats have been very effective of carrying those ballots. are republicans getting better at those efforts as well in recent months and years? look, i can t really tell you that but i know in 2020, we knocked on 650,000 doors. in the middle of covid when no one else was on the door. this time around, we knew these midterm elections were going to be extremely close. we had to expand our walk program larger than we ve ever done in the past. we have knocked on over 1 million doors during the mid term in the state of nevada, those were our goals, and we hit our goals. right now, we have close to 300 full-time canvassers, ballot carrying in las vegas and nevada. we are the largest ballot curing program in the state. same as the canvassing. no one hits the doors like we
appears that you guys are involved in a really critical at postelection effort, and that is ballot carrying. for people who do not know what that is, and why that is important, could you explain? first of all, i would say thank you for having me here, alex. we saw the congresswoman dina titus, just admitted another clean victory, we had a clean sweep, and we are extremely proud of that. the idea of ballot caring is that when somebody males in a ballot, or drops off a ballot in the envelope, they may have forgot to sign the envelope, and there are other requirements that could have happened. there is an opportunity, the election department wants to make sure that those folks know that even though they think that they have voted, their ballot has not been counted. and our goal is to make sure that every single one of those ballots are counted.